vi, 371 p. : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-361) and index

A septet of sibyls: aids in the search for truth -- Genesis and observership -- Our universe: the known and the unknown -- The morale of research people -- Be the best to give the most -- To Nicolause Copernicus -- To Jeseph Henry -- The spirit of colleagueship at Princeton -- Niels Bohr and nuclear physics -- Delayed-choice experiments and the Bohr-Einstein Dialogue -- The outsider -- To Albert Einstein -- No fugitive and cloistered virtue -- Einstein and other seekers of the wider view -- Maria Sklodowska Curie and and world of the small -- Hermann Weyl and the unity of knowledge -- Hendrik Anthony Kramers -- Hideki Yukawa as uniquely ecumenical -- Dealing with risk -- To Benjamin Franklin -- Science ans survival -- The place of science in modern life -- Beyond the black hole -- It from bit

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